Have you ever considered Sally that he is playing a very clever game. Apart from the handwringers I have yet to meet anyone who didn't tick up Godfrey in their estimation after his bongo bongo land comments, especially when all the other politicos started being ever so PC about it.

Watch Godfrey in the Euros, I have no doubt he will be top dog in his region. He is not PC, and that is a position that resonates throughout UKIP and the wider population. I also have no doubt there will be angst on the part of the liberals when he is re-elected, at a loss about how their carefully constructed PC world has been torn apart and rejected by the plebs.

Crick is a smarmy and devious **** of the highest order, a supposedly upmarket version of Damian McBride. Good for Godfrey Bloom. He must have done something right if he is being criticised by Sally "Stockholm Syndrome" Roberts.

PS isn't the simple answer to Crick's question that, being a liberal party, UKIP picks candidates on merit and not on the colour of their skin? That of course is different from the approach of South Africa (both now and in the apartheid era); Nazi Germany; and the LibLabCon.

Godfrey Bloom is an idiot. Only a certain type of old reactionary would find his antics amusing. He reminds me of some weird kind of Peter Wyngarde parody figure but without the sideburns. Hey ladies...light my fire.

The man's bonkers. Every party has them, but most don't let them get quite so high up the ladder. Puzzled as to how UKIP "removed the whip" - they keep telling us that they have no whips. I guess that's more of their "always tell the truth" stuff.

Shame this Bloom charactert can't control himself.
He has wrecked what should have been a great opening day for UKIP.

If UKIP could only prove themselves to be a force to be reckoned with, they are the only people who could shake Cameron out of some of his useless, high falutin, ego boosting policies and bring him back down to earth.

If UKIP could give him a scare, maybe he might concentrate on the policies that the people of this country actually care about.

Crick may be wildly irritating, but he is a very good investigative journalist. His biography of Archer helped bring down the Ignoble Lord, and he seems to have been the driver behind apparently clearing Andrew Mitchell.

Lay off the poor chaps. This is clearly Bloom in a cross between defensive and dry-commic mode (he's not really accusing Crick of racism, just trying to turn the tables on Crick's innuendo). As for Crick he's a decent and fair minded jorno who has recently managed to get (more or less) to the bottom of the whole Mitchell fit up.

Farage is wrong to withdraw the whip (although I know it is allegedly for the "slut" comment) but, listening to the recording of that joke, it is abundantly clear that the laughter which followed the "slut" joke was of a substantially more feminine character than, for example, the other laughter on the same clip. This suggests that Bloom judged his (substantially female) audience correctly and they were not offended.

Whilst his 'audience' may not have taken offence at his comments regarding the 'S' word, I know plenty that have, indeed that sort of jibe has the potential to upset at least half of the electorate! Then the outburst with Michael Crick! Is this the real face of UKIP? Yes the Whip has been withdrawn from Bloom but his antics make me question how many more of his calibre are still in the UKIP ranks!